I spent my Sunday cleaning and watching at two to four episodes of shows I’ve never really given a chance to before. Here’s my initial, by no means my final, impressions:
- Project Runway – New season, new channel, same old show. For the longest time, I’ve not liked the pace of Runway but I just happened onto the first episode and was somehow immediately hooked. I don’t know anyone’s names yet but the guy who sent the model down the runway in a 100% sheer dress should be thanking the Heidi Klum gods that he wasn’t “outed” for that. Wow. Some pretty dresses in the first two episodes but honestly, what pregnant woman would want to look like she has a big egg on her belly?
- Dollhouse – I’ll save most of this for another post devoted to this Joss Whedon show. I got the first season on DVD (I love gift cards) and I’ve watched the first 4 episodes. I like it a lot more than I did last winter – though I only ever watched the first two when they aired – and am very excited to watch the rest of it. I already know some things I shouldn’t but that has never bothered me much. Definitely looking forward to the new season.
- Mad Men – Okay. I have not seen much of any of the first two seasons of the show. I watched the first episode of Season 3 and found it incredibly boring. Why I even came back to it last night I don’t know but I watched the second and third episodes back to back and very much enjoyed both of them. I’m not going to spoil it for those that didn’t watch last night’s episode. If I am going to watch Mad Men though, I must DVR it and watch it on Mondays. I was so wired after watching two hours of it last night that I didn’t fall asleep until midnight and was up again at 4. Hard to do that on Sunday night.
And Laura, you are going to hate me for this but I think Jon Hamm looks a tiny bit like an older John Krasinski. That could be because I’ve been in Office land for the past couple weeks so maybe everyone looks like J Kras right now. 🙂 I am starting to dig Hamm’s character a bit more though.